How do you solder copper pipe if the pipe is dripping water after shutting the water main off? This DIY video shows you all about soldering copper pipe with water in it. We'll teach you about this old plumbing trick to soldering copper pipe and how to use this Plumber's Bread Trick to solder copper pipe with water still dripping. This repair helps hold the water back until you complete the soldering process. You can't sweat copper pipes while water is inside.
Trolls claim we never de-burred the pipe before soldering copper pipes, we did de-burr the copper pipe, it is not in video. At 6:09 in the plumbing bread trick video, you can see my gray de-burring tool sitting on the shower curb.
We'll teach you correct way how to solder copper pipes. It will be no sweat for you to learn how to sweat copper pipes and copper fittings.
The plumbing bread trick for soldering copper pipe with water in it
Soldering pipes with water in the pipe is impossible; water cools copper pipe so solder will never flow. This plumbing dilemma happens at 50% of our properties. Our plumbing tips show you how to sweat copper pipe with water in them. Use our plumbing tricks when soldering copper pipe with water in it.
You cut off the main water but water still leaks and drips out of the copper pipe. You cannot solder your copper fittings until you stop water from dripping out of the copper pipe. A few drops of water in the copper pipe will prevent solder from flowing. Plumber's bread trick to save the day:
To stop water from dripping from the copper pipe, you wad up some white sandwich bread in a dense ball and push it into the pipe past the area where you'll solder copper pipes. You'll learn how to solder pipes with our bread trick, plumbing tips.
Bread in pipe is how to solder pipes with water in them.
Bread stops water from reaching copper pipe connection where copper fittings will be soldered. It blocks water long enough for you to solder copper fittings in place while soldering copper pipe. This is how to solder copper pipe with water in it.
After soldering pipes using plumbers bread trick
Once you know how to solder copper pipes with the plumbing bread trick and completed your plumbing repair solder connection, don't forget to flush the bread from your plumbers bread trick out of the copper pipe, so it does not clog the valve that you place on the end of your pipe. After soldering copper pipe, remove the bread from your plumber's bread plumbing tricks out of the pipe by flushing it out of the copper pipe with water.
After you solder dripping pipes
Flush out bread after your plumbing trick and soldering pipes is completed. Turn on the main water until you hear the pipes fill up with water under pressure for 2 seconds, then immediately shut off the water. This will make the chunk of bread shoot out the pipe into a waiting 5 gallon bucket as seen in this DIY how to video and now your plumber's bread trick is complete.
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Congratulations, now that you've seen this useful soldering copper pipes plumbing videos, you now know how to solder a copper pipe with water in it, while tricking mother nature at the same time. Now you can teach your friends these plumbing tips how to sweat copper pipe when wet using the plumbing bread trick, putting bread in pipe to solder! You can teach an old dog new plumbing tricks.
00:00 Introduction to problem of dripping copper pipe after water shutoff 00:39 Plumbers Breas Trick to stop flow of water 01:55 Vacuum out remaining water after bread inserted into pipe 03:05 Apply flux and solder the copper pipe 06:00 wipe copper pipe after it cools down by itself 06:24 Flush plumber's bread out of the copper pipe
